An Indecent Proposal by Margot Early

Author:Margot Early
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ordinarily, Dylan Hastings would not have been the first person Patrick would choose to confide in. But he couldn’t very well ask Louisa if she knew of any good divorce attorneys. Louisa would ferret out the truth about Wesley in a heartbeat.

Besides, Dylan had been through a divorce of his own.

So Patrick was pleased when Dylan, Megan and Heidi stopped by the following day before Heidi headed back to school. While Megan and Heidi went out to the stables, so that Megan could say goodbye to her horse, Patrick and Dylan sat on the porch, each with a beer, and Patrick tried to work out how to get the information he wanted from Dylan without breaking his promise to Bronwyn.

He settled on the old “a friend of mine has a problem” approach.

He wasn’t sure Dylan bought the story of Patrick’s old friend from university who’d learned unexpectedly that he was a father and was looking for a good attorney to help him secure his parental rights. At one point, Dylan said, “And how old is this child?”

“Ten,” Patrick admitted with some reluctance. He thought he saw something like amusement cross Dylan’s features, but whatever Megan’s fiancé suspected, he didn’t put it into words.

Finally, Dylan said, “What does your friend want out of the situation?”

“Parental rights,” Patrick answered as though this were obvious.

“What rights, though? Visitation?”

“Half time. I know he doesn’t want a court battle or anything like that.”

Dylan’s look was strangely grim. “Well, it’s all fine to talk about fifty-fifty time, and some people are in favor of parents just working things out for themselves. But as someone in law enforcement, I recommend getting everything in writing.”

“That’s what I thought,” Patrick agreed. He would have to tell an attorney everything, but the attorney would be bound by client confidentiality.

“Sure, I have a guy I’d recommend,” Dylan said at last. “But I have to say, your friend’s lucky that the kid’s mum wants to be with her child.”

“Of course she does,” Patrick said, then remembered that this wasn’t the case with Dylan’s daughter, Heidi, whose mother didn’t seem to know or care what happened to her daughter. He opened his mouth to apologize, but Dylan seemed to intuit Patrick’s realization of his mistake.

“No worries,” Dylan muttered. “She’s got Megan.”

Patrick heard the love bordering on reverence with which Dylan spoke of Patrick’s sister. It made him like the other man, went some distance toward forgiving him for ever having suspected Louisa of murdering Sam Whittleson.

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